TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints7619
UR  - http://cogprints.org/7619/
A1  - Schwenkler, Dr. John
TI  - Does Visual Spatial Awareness Require the Visual Awareness of Space?
Y1  - 2011///
N2  - Many philosophers have held that it is not possible to experience a spatial object, property, or relation except against the background of an intact awareness of a space that is somehow ?absolute?. This paper challenges that claim, by analyzing in detail the case of a brain-damaged subject whose visual experiences seem to have violated this condition: spatial objects and properties were present in his visual experience, but space itself was not. I go on to suggest that phenomenological argumentation can give us a kind of evidence about the nature of the mind even if this evidence is not absolutely incorrigible.
AV  - public
KW  - spatial representation
KW  -  visual perception
KW  -  Balint's syndrome
KW  -  phenomenology
ER  -

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